"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them
for what they are." -- Marcus Aurelius
"Don't be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if
there's no poverty to be seen because the poverty's been hidden. Even if
you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and
useless goods which industries foist on you and even if it seems to you
that you never had so much, that is only the slogan of those who still
have much more than you.
Don't be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say
that there's no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight
because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their
marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world
under the pretence of bringing them culture.
Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they'll send you out to protect
their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists,
will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger
tear a million of you to pieces." -- Jean Paul Marat, 18th Century French
Visionary
"Vulgas vult decepi" - the people wish to be decieved. -- Phaedrus
"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism" - Thomas Jefferson
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who watches the watchmen?" -- Juvenal,
Satires, VI, 347
"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the
people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the
lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its
powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie,
and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State."
-- Dr. Joseph M. Goebbel
"Oh Mortal Man, is there nothing you cannot be made to believe?" -- Adam
Weishaupt
"The length and severity of depressions depend partly on the magnitude of
the 'real' maladjustments, which developed during the preceding boom and
partly on the aggravating monetary and credit conditions."
- Gotfried Haberler, Prosperity and Depression, 1937
"The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a
perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth
must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive,
indefatigable renascent errors." -- Charles Peguy
"Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western
World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary.
One would like to ask: by whom has it been elected, and to whom is it
responsible?" --Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Violence does not and cannot exist by itself; it is invariably
intertwined with the lie." -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"These sectors of the doctrinal system serve to divert the unwashed masses
and reinforce basic social values: passivity, submissiveness to authority,
the overriding virtue of greed and personal gain, lack of concern for
others, fear of real or imagined enemies, etc. The goal is to keep the
bewildered herd bewildered." -- Dr. Noam Chomsky, from What Uncle Sam
Really Wants
"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so
monstrous he cannot believe it exists." -- J. Edgar Hoover
"We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely
controlled and dominated Governments in the world - no longer a Government
of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the
majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of
dominant men." -- Woodrow Wilson
"Once a government resorts to terror against its own population to get
what it wants, it must keep using terror against its own population to get
what it wants. A government that terrorizes its own people can never stop.
If such a government ever lets the fear subside and rational thought
return to the populace, that government is finished." -- Michael Rivero
"News is what someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising."
-- Rubin Frank, former NBC news president
"Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they
ought to have." -- Richard Salent, former President CBS News
"By way of deception, thou shalt do war." -- Motto of the Mossad
"All warfare is based on deception." -- The Art Of War, Sun Tzu
"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a
continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national
emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some
monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not
blindly rally behind it ..." -- General Douglas MacArthur, 1957
"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the
leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being
attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing
the country to danger." -- Hermann Goering, at the Nuremberg Trials
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and
hence, clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless
series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary" -- H.L. Mencken
"The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything
about the subject." -- Marcus Aurelius
"The owners of the Washington Post long ago acknowledged that the Post is
the government's voice to the people. In 1981, Katherine Graham, who owns
the Post and Newsweek announced that her editors would 'cooperate with the
national security interests.' National security in this context means
'CIA'." -- John Stockwell, former CIA official
"The news and truth are not the same thing." -- Walter Lippmann, American
journalist, 1889-1974
"I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. I would not lead you into
the promised land if I could, because if I could lead you in, somebody
else would lead you out." --- Eugene V. Debs
"No man is free who is not master of himself. --- Epictetus
"If your happiness depends on what someone else says or does, I guess you
do have a problem." --- Richard Bach
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."
--- Marcus Antonius
"The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words
return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy." --- Florence
Shinn
�Believe that you can�t, or believe that you can. Either way, you�re
right." --- Henry Ford
"By a continuous process of inflation, governments can confiscate,
secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their
citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but they confiscate
arbitrarily; and while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches
some....The process engages all of the hidden forces of economic law on
the side of destruction, and does it in a manner that not one man in a
million can diagnose." - John Maynard Keynes Economic Consequences of the
Peace, 1920
"If you are very early in a chain letter, you can make money, but there's
no money created. "--- Warren Buffett, April 2000 shareholders meeting
If it were not for Greenspan � Mr. Productivity Miracle, Mr. Irrational
Exuberance, Mr. Printing Press, and Mr. Deflation � many of the paradoxes
confusing investor�s today would not be so poignant... -- Fallstreet.com
"We in the Congress have a moral and constitutional obligation to protect
the value of the dollar and to understand why it is so important to the
economy that a central bank not be given the unbelievable power of
inflating a currency at will and pretending that it knows how to fine tune
an economy through this counterfeit system of money." -- Dr. Ron Paul, US
Congressman, R, Texas
"The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing
against the Principles and form of our Constitution. I am an Enemy to all
banks discounting bills or notes for anything but Coin. If the American
People allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency,
first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that
will grow up around them will deprive the People of all their Property
until their Children will wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers
conquered. "... - Thomas Jefferson
If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our
drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our
amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are,
our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the
twenty-four, and give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government
for their debts and daily expenses; And the sixteen being insufficient to
afford us bread, we must live, as they do now, on oatmeal and potatoes,
have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; But
be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains
around the necks of our fellow sufferers; And this is the tendency of all
human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a
precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on 'til the bulk
of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no
sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering...and the forehorse of
this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its
train wretchedness and oppression. -- Thomas Jefferson
"Every mania in financial history has been liquidity driven. You can go
back to the South Sea Bubble or tulips in Holland. As long as the money is
coming in, everything is fine. " - Raymond DeVoe, Dec. 11, 1995
"Today's economy was probably experiencing a once-in-a-century
acceleration in innovation, but people may well conclude that a good deal
of what we are currently experiencing was just one of the many euphoric
speculative bubbles that have dotted human history." - Alan Greenspan,
January 2000
"The length and severity of depressions depend partly on the magnitude of
the 'real' maladjustments, which developed during the preceding boom and
partly on the aggravating monetary and credit conditions." --- Gotfried
Haberler, Prosperity and Depression, 1937
There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so
little as in the world of finance. Past experience, to the extent that it
is part of memory at all, is dimissed as the primative refuge of those who
do not have the insight to appreciate the incredible wonders of the
present." --- John Kenneth Galbreith, A Short History of Financial
Euphoria
"With real-estate prices up, you would think that Americans would be
rolling in home equity. But as fast as they lay hands on it, they are
borrowing it out. " --- Nicholas Retsinas, director of the Joint Center
for Housing Studies at Harvard University. SF Gate, 8/11/01
"For 5 years at least, American business has been in the grip of an
apocalyptic holy-rolling exaltation over the unparalleled prosperity of
the 'new era' upon which we have entered." --- Business Week, 1929
�The borrower is the slave to the lender." -- King Solomon
"Regrettably, history is strewn with visions of such 'new eras' that, in
the end, have proven to be a mirage. " - Alan Greenspan, February 1997
�The big question is how much longer will the Plunge Protection Team (set
up after the 1987 crash) be able to prop up the stock market? At best the
Plunge Protection Team's manipulation of the stock market can only give it
temporary bounces within the context of a long-term bear market." -- State
Gazette, 07/2003
"All sense of fiscal discipline seems to have disappeared� -- ECB,
Duisenberg, 2003
�This push toward easing is a global phenomenon� -- Reuters, 2003
"A consumption boom financed by debt and home equity withdrawal; skinny
profit margins; interest rates about to start rising. It looks like the
ingredients of a train wreck" -- The Age, 11/2003
"...Resources have been misallocated because of the cheapness of credit in
both stock and credit markets. So, you're not going to solve the problem
by making money cheaper again." - Al Friedberg, Welling@Weeden, March 23,
2001
"Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of
all industry and all commerce ... and when you realise that the entire
system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful
men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and
depression originate." -- President James A. Garfield, just a few weeks
before he was assassinated on July 2nd, 1881.
Today's economy was probably experiencing a once-in-a-century acceleration
in innovation, but people may well conclude that a good deal of what we
are currently experiencing was just one of the many euphoric speculative
bubbles that have dotted human history." - Alan Greenspan, January 2000
You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an
argument for it. � Noam Chomsky
"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion.
Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they
consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily
move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."-- Aristotle
Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive.
Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
� Ayn Rand
I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the
whole field to private individuals. � Joseph Heller
"There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so
little as in the world of finance. Past experience, to the extent that it
is part of memory at all, is dimissed as the primative refuge of those who
do not have the insight to appreciate the incredible wonders of the
present."- John Kenneth Galbreith, A Short History of Financial Euphoria
We are on the verge of global transformation. All we need is the right
major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order -- David
Rockefeller
"As America becomes an increasingly multicultural society, it may find it
more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in
the circumstances of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external
threat." -- Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
"The fate of the world economy is now totally dependent on the growth of
the U.S. economy, which is dependent on the stock market, whose growth is
dependent on about 50 stocks, half of which have never reported any
earnings." --- former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, September
1999
"I can thank God at this moment that He has so wonderfully blessed us in
our hard struggle for what is our right..." Adolf Hitler, Speech in
Berlin, October 6, 1939
"Instead of blaming Mr. Greenspan, we should reflect on the willing
suspension of disbelief that allowed us to ignore everything we have been
taught about sound investing." - Steven Rattner, New York Times, April 4,
2001
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. � Thomas
Jefferson.....If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in
the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. � James Madison.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his
government. � Edward Abbe.
This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to
war. � Tom Daschle
Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the
interest of the American people? � Rep. Wally Herger
Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business. �
Ludwig von Mises... War is the Health of the State. � Randolph Bo
There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance. � Goethe
�In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it
was planned that way.� -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
What luck for rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler
" The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth
of private power to the point where it becomes stronger than the
democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism - ownership of
government by an individual, by a group or any controlling private power.
" President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Those few who can understand the system (check book money and credit) will
either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent upon it for
favors, that there will be little opposition from that class, while on the
other hand, the great body of people mentally incapable of comprehending
the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear
its burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that
the system is inimical to their interests."
Rothschild Bros. of London
"Banking was conceived in iniquity, and was born in sin. The Bankers own
the Earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create
deposits, and with the flick of the pen, they will create enough deposits,
to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and the great
fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this
would be a happier and better world to live in. But if you wish to remain
slaves of Bankers, and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue
to create deposits."
Sir Josiah Stamp, (President of the Bank of England in the 1920's, the
second richest man in Britain)
"The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process
is, perhaps, the most, astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever
invented. Banks can in fact inflate, mint, and un-mint the modern
ledger-entry currency."
Major L.L.B. Angus
"While boasting of our noble deeds, we are careful to control the ugly
fact that by an iniquitous money system, we have nationalized a system of
oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old
system of chattel slavery."
Horace Greely
"Whoever controls the volumn of money in any country is absolute master of
all industry and commerce."
President James A. Garfield
"Those who create and issue money and credit direct the polices of
government and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the
people."
Sir. Reginald McKenna, former President of the Midland Bank of England
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value--- zero."
Voltair (1694 - 1778)
"Give me the power to issue a nation's money, then I do not care who makes
the law."
Anselm Rothschild
"A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our
system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the Nation and all our
activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the
worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated
governments in the world -- no longer a government of free opinion, no
longer a government of conviction, and vote of the majority, but a
government by the opinion and duress, of small groups of dominate men."
President Woodrow Wilson
"Paper money polluted the equity of our laws, turned them into engines of
oppression, corrupted the justice of our public administration, destroyed
the fortunes of thousands who had confidence in it, enervated the trade,
husbandry, and manufacturers of our country, and went far to destroy the
morality of our people."
Pelatiah Webster
"The bank hath the benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out
of nothing."
William Patterson
"Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan
transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money
the do not possess."
Irving Fisher
"Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment, out of
nothing."
Ralph M. Hawtrey, Former Secretary of the British Treasury
"This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent, on the
Commercial Banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar, we have in
circulation, cash or credit. If the Banks create ample synthetic money, we
are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are, absolutely, without a permanent
money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic
absurdity, of our hopeless position, is almost incredible, but there it
is. It is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate
and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may
collapse, unless it becomes widely understood and the defects remedied
very soon."
Robert H. Hemphill, (Credit Manager of Federal Reserve Bank, Atlanta,
Georgia)
"... we have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the
world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal
Reserve Banks ... This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the
people of the United States... Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks
are United States Government institutions. They are private credit
monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for the benefit
of themselves and their foreign customers...
"The Federal Reserve (Banks) are one of the most corrupt institutions the
world has ever seen. There is not a man within the sound of my voice who
does not know that this Nation is run by the International Bankers.
"Mr. Chairman, we have in this country one of the most corrupt
institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve
Board and the Federal Reserve Banks, hereinafter called the Fed. The Fed
has cheated the Government of the United States and the people of the
United States out of enough money to pay the Nation's debt... The wealth
of these United States and the working capital have been taken away from
them and has either been locked in the vaults of certain banks and the
great corporations or exported to foreign countries for the benefit of
foreign customers of these banks and corporations. So far as the people of
the United States are concerned, the cupboard is bare.
"When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United
States did not perceive that a world banking system was being set up here.
A super-state controlled by international bankers and industrialists...
acting together to enslave the world... Every effort has been made by the
Fed to conceal its powers but the truth is -- the Fed has usurped the
government."
Congressman Louis T. McFadden, Former Chairman of the Committee on Banking
and Currency
"History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse,
intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control
over governments by controlling money and its issuance."
James Madison
"To emit unfunded paper as the sign of value ought not to continue a
formal part of the Constitution, nor even hereafter be employed; being, in
its nature, pregnant with abuses, and liable to be made the engine of
imposition and fraud; holding out temptations equally pernicious to the
integrity of government and to the morals of the people."
Alexander Hamilton
"If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it
was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or
corporations.
"The bold efforts that the present bank has made to control the government
and the distress it has wantonly caused, are but premonitions of the fate
which awaits the American people should they be deluded into a
perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like
it... if the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and
banking system there would be a revolution before morning."
Andrew Jackson
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in
society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system
that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
Frederic Bastiat, The Law
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the
state wants to live at the expense of everyone.
Frederic Bastiat
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On
the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed
beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
Frederic Bastiat
Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of
joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it
has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been
abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.
John Kenneth Galbraith
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in
moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification
for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is
repelled.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the
opposite.
John Kenneth Galbraith
�We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to
give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we
are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large
samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set
to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.�
Alfred Hitchcock
�Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible.�
Robespierre
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by
his fathers, but borrowed from his children.�
John James Audubon
�Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a
prudent enemy is preferable.�
Jean De La Fontaine
�The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely
tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to
do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the
process is its own reward.�
Amelia Earhart
�Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight
of cleverness.�
Thomas H. Huxley
�Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies
solely in my tenacity.�
Louis Pasteur
�Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties,
nations and epochs, it is the rule.�
Friedrich Nietzsche
�All progress occurs because people dare to be different.�
Kahlil Gibran
�Do I know what rhetorical means?�
Homer Simpson
�A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.�
Roald Dahl (Willy Wonka) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
British juvenile author (1916 - 1990)
"Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators" Adolf Hitler, 25 March
1938, after taking over Austria
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my
contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, science for him the
spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be
done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality,
deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how
despicable an ignorable war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a
part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the
cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." Albert Einstein
"An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, stays bought." Simon
Cameron Lincoln's Secretary of War
"The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World
Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call
money in the New York money market....The One World Government leaders and
their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and
credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned
Federal Reserve Bank." Curtis Dall, FDR's son-in-law as quoted in his
book, My Exploited Father-in-Law
"Paper is poverty,... it is only the ghost of money, and not money
itself." --Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1788
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only
exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves
largess out of the public treasury.
--Alexander Tytler
"The fundamental political question is why do people obey government. The
answer is that they tend to enslave themselves, to let themselves be
governed by tyrants. Freedom from servitude comes not from violent action,
but from the refusal to serve. Tyrants fall when the people withdraw their
support." ~ �tienne de la Boetie
"Few Americans give much thought to the Federal Reserve System or monetary
policy in general. But even as they strive to earn a living, and hopefully
save for the future, Congress and the FED work insidiously against them.
Day by day, every dollar you have is being devalued.
The greatest threat facing America today is the disastrous fiscal policies
of our own government, marked by shameless deficit spending and Federal
Reserve currency devaluation. It is this one-two punch-- Congress spending
more than it can tax or borrow, and the Fed printing money to make up the
difference-- that threatens to impoverish us."
- Congressman Dr. Ron Paul
"Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced
that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs
of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and
when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the
deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand
families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let
you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my
sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves and I intend to rout you."
- President Andrew Jackson
"When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the
leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives
is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are
without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.'
-Napoleon Bonaparte
"Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the
international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System
have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and
manipulates the credit of the United States."
.
.-- Senator Barry Goldwater
�We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere
paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but
broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a
ruined people.�
- Daniel Webster, American Statesman
"Money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or
throw light upon its crimes."
- William Jennings Bryan
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in
reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that
all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of
them. --SOCRATES
The PATRIOT is a scarce man and brave, hated and scorned. When his cause
succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a
patriot. -- MARK TWAIN
"I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public
debt as the greatest dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence,
we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we can prevent
the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of
caring for them they will be happy."
Thomas Jefferson
"If this mischievous financial policy, which has its origin in North
America, shall become endurated down to a fixture, then that Government
will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off debts and be
without debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its
commerce. It will become prosperous without precedent in the history of
the world. The brains, and wealth of all countries will go to North
America. That country must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy
on the globe." - Hazard Circular - London Times 1865
